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Kripal said what he discovered there was an American mysticism that allowed the body and spirit to form a unity of erotic and spiritual energies.
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Kripal is an engaging storyteller, Esalen a worthy subject a kind of US Weekly for the discerning intellectual, and it's as easy to jump from the introduction to chapter 14 as it is to continue in order.
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The article leads off with Kripal claiming, "All of my books are about sexuality and sprituality."
The Chicago Blog: Sex, Spirituality, and the Esalen Institute 2007
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Kripal and his latest work Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion.
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Kripal and his latest work Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion.
The Chicago Blog: Sex, Spirituality, and the Esalen Institute 2007
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Kripal said what he discovered there was an American mysticism that allowed the body and spirit to form a unity of erotic and spiritual energies.
The Chicago Blog: Sex, Spirituality, and the Esalen Institute 2007
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But, says Kripal, "Esalen's activist, intellectual, and metaphysical dimensions have struck me as both the most significant and, oddly, the least-known aspects of its story."
The Chicago Blog: Jeffrey Kripal on The Religion of No Religion 2007
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Kripal points out that the "secular mysticism" cultivated at the institute is a spiritual trend that can be traced deep in the history of American culture—back to nineteenth-century American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Chicago Blog: Jeffrey Kripal on The Religion of No Religion 2007
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According to Kripal, Emerson was a believer in a "democratic, individualized form of spirituality that is fundamentally open to present and future revelations, not just past ones"; a system of belief which the institute's founders, Michael Murphy and Richard Price, also embraced in a "secular mysticism that is deeply conversant with democracy, religious pluralism, and modern science."
The Chicago Blog: Jeffrey Kripal on The Religion of No Religion 2007
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Kripal is an engaging storyteller, Esalen a worthy subject a kind of US Weekly for the discerning intellectual, and it's as easy to jump from the introduction to chapter 14 as it is to continue in order.
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